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RightScale Offers a PaaS Based on Zend PHP
RightScale and Zend have teamed up to offer a PaaS for deploying, managing and running PHP applications in the cloud. Currently available only on Amazon AWS, the PHP Solution Pack will be made available for other cloud providers in the future.
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POJO Service Registry brings OSGi to the Classpath
A new project on Google Code, the Pojo Service Registry, aims to provide an OSGi-lite mechanism for Java applications, but outside of a OSGi runtime. Instead of requiring all JARs to be bundles, it scans the startup classpath and emulates a bundle layer, whilst providing the service hookups that would be wired together in a full OSGi container.
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Capture the Application, not just the Screenshot with VS Lab Management
Visual Studio Lab Management 2010 is a highly integrated virtualization, development, and testing tool. When testers encounter an error they can create a snapshot of the virtual environment at that moment: not just a screenshot, but the current state of the application or website and all the servers involved.
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NoSQL, NewSQL and Beyond
The 451 Group has published earlier this month the conclusions of a report detailing the growing set of options in the information management space. In the process they also clarified what they meant by "NewSQL".
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Axon Framework 1.0 Released
The Axon framework from JTeam - an implementation of the CQRS and EDA patterns - has been released.
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NuGet packages now come with Debug symbols, Sources
The NuGet team has announced a feature that allows package authors to package their sources along with their assemblies for distribution through NuGet. This enables developers using these packages to debug through the sources of the referenced packages easily, without having to search for the source code on the project hosting server or do complicated setups.
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Microsoft Virtual Academy on Cloud Computing
Microsoft has opened a free online virtual academy for students interested in learning and graduating in Microsoft Cloud Computing technologies.
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What Is Enterprise Architecture?
There is a lot of discussion about the role of enterprise architecture, and they way it should operate in the enterprise. New posts by Jason Bloomberg and JP Morgenthal are suggesting a new form of enterprise architecture.
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JAX London 2011 Review
Last week's JAX London included an OSGi specific day as well as others on Agile, Spring, JavaEE and tools. As well as the JAX Awards, other products were introduced such as the free GlobalsDB, an overview of Cloud Foundry, and Adobe Flex 4.5 running on top of iOS and on a demonstration BlackBerry playbook. Read on to find out more.
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Oracle Offloads Open Office
Oracle has finally let go of OpenOffice.org, stating that it will not be offering commercial products based on the codebase nor supporting development of the OpenOffice codebase, instead hoping to get the community involved in on-going maintenance. Given that LibreOffice forked some time ago and appears to be a healthier fork, what chances are there that OpenOffice will survive?
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Oracle Coherence 3.7's Elastic Data Offers Transparent Overflow from Memory to Solid State Storage
Oracle has today released version 3.7 of Coherence, its distributed in-memory data grid. The new product introduces a feature called Elastic Data. According to Cameron Purdy, Vice President of Development for the Coherence product, this allows near memory speed access to data, regardless of storage medium.
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OpenCompute and OpenStack Span Hardware and Software Cloud Infrastructure and Platform Solutions
A number of announcements around open hardware specifications and open source cloud infrastructure and platform software solutions by collaborators in the OpenStack initiative were made in the past 2 weeks. How does all of them stack up together?
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Microsoft and Toyota announce Cloud Infrastructure for Smart Cars
Microsoft and Toyota have announced a strategic partnership on future telematics for vehicles. Goal of the partnership is to create a common telematics platform with Microsoft contributing its Windows Azure Cloud Computing technology and TMC (Toyota Media Service Co.) deploying its telematics applications in the Azure-based cloud. The solution will address electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles.
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IMPACT11: 'Business Agility' With IBM's Latest WebSphere Advancements
IBM's IMPACT 11 conference is underway this week hosting more than 8,000 business and IT leaders representing 60 countries, gathered to learn discuss how to "work smarter for better business outcomes". During the 4 day event, IBM revolves their unveiling of many new tools, products, solutions, and ideas around the one key message of enabling "Business Agility".
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StackOverflow’s ORM goes Open Source - Dapper.Net
A simple ORM used in StackOverflow titled Dapper.Net was recently released on code.google.com. This ORM specializes in fast generation of objects from SQL query results. Dapper.Net supports mapping query results to a strongly typed list or a list of dynamic objects. The ORM is a single file of less than 500 lines of C# code and is available under the Apache 2.0 License.